#volume

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#bit #cello #give #guitar #i

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#helplessness #kafka #powerful #twenty #volumes

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#expands #fill #find #i #often

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#any #commerce #controls #country #industry

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. ↗

— Mos Def

#i #presence #say #speaks #volumes

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ↗

— Hans Frank

#american #army #arrested #destroy #diary

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#reticence #three #volumes

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. ↗

— James Loeb

#after #early #half #i #inconsiderable

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#any #better #first #i #instance